Archive for the 'Beliefs' Category
Unexpected Chains Of Events The other day I had one of those nights where things end up much different than you planned. I figured it be a night when you start off thinking you are going to go out, grab a bite to eat, maybe watch a few play of the game on TV at [...]
April 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Flexibility, Metaphor, Persuasion | No Comments
Pistols At Dawn I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday, and I noticed something interesting about her speech. She had always spoken like that, but I hadn’t talked to her in quite a while. Last time we spoke was before I had become interested in language, having read several books on linguistics and [...]
April 18th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Language, Metaphor, Model of the World, NLP Tips, Social Anxiety, Social Skills | 1 Comment
Spaghetti Once I had this really strange and sudden desire to eat Italian food. It wasn’t even close to lunch or dinnertime. The feeling just completely hit me out of the blue. Since I didn’t have any real solid plans for the next couple hours, I figured I’d go downtown and find an Italian restaurant. [...]
April 16th, 2010 | Posted in Appreciation, Beliefs, Brain Power | 1 Comment
What’s The Meaning Behind That? I remember several years ago I was driving down the freeway, in a hurry to get someplace. I forget where, so obviously it couldn’t have been very important. I was zipping in and out of traffic, checking for cops behind me every few minutes. Just as I was about to [...]
April 8th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Choice, Evolution, Flirting, Metaphor, Perception | No Comments
Teach An Old Dog New Tricks? The other night, I decided to go out for a walk. I recently moved to new part of town, and decided to go and check things out. The sun has been setting later and later recently, and I had gotten off a little earlier than normal from work, so [...]
April 7th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Language, Learning, NLP Tips | No Comments
Follow The Bouncing Ball Once I had this friend who had this really overactive imagination. I guess overactive isn’t quite the right term, as I don’t suppose his biochemical neuro activity was any more or less than the next guy. But he had two things that stood out when it came to his imagination. He [...]
April 6th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Brain Power, Creativity, Focus, Metaphor, how to | No Comments
Self Deception Once a friend of mine were watching some videos at his house. This way back in high school, and his parents were out of town, so we had the house to ourselves. Nearby his parents place they were building a new group of houses, and they were at the stage where they all [...]
March 28th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Metaphor, Model of the World, Reality, Stories | No Comments
Inside Out The other night I was flipping around the TV and I came across an old episode of Seinfeld. It was the one where George decided to do the opposite of everything he’d normally do and he suddenly had fantastic results. He would walk up to girls and tell them he was unemployed and [...]
March 26th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Confidence, Evolution, Flexibility, Learning, Metaphor, Model of the World | No Comments
Make It Easy I used to go on these long bike rides a couple days a week after work, and even some longer ones on the weekend. After work I didn’t have much time, so I’d to either go on a loop, or go on a long up and back trip to some particular destination [...]
March 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Flexibility, Memories, NLP Tips, Perception, Unconcscious Mind | No Comments
Answers That’s what she wanted. She had been waiting for me for almost two hours, when I came wandering up. Where was I? Why didn’t I call? How could I do this to her, didn’t I know that she felt like a fool standing there all alone like that for so long? What must people [...]
March 13th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Choice, Decisions, Metaphor, Stories | No Comments